Doug Brunk is a San Diego-based award-winning reporter who began covering health care in 1991. Before joining the company, he wrote for the health sciences division of Columbia University and was an associate editor at Contemporary Long Term Care magazine when it won a Jesse H. Neal Award. His work has been syndicated by the Los Angeles Times and he is the author of two books related to the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program. Doug has a master’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Follow him on Twitter @dougbrunk.
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Trials Give Nod to Antibiotics for Children With Certain Acute Otitis Media
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- Doug Brunk
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No Relationship Seen Between Poverty and Mortality in Critical Care
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: Neighborhood poverty rate was not associated with a significant increase in all-cause mortality following critical care, ranging...
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No Relationship Seen Between Poverty and Mortality in Critical Care
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: Neighborhood poverty rate was not associated with a significant increase in all-cause mortality following critical care, ranging...
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Vitamin D Deficiency High in the Surgical ICU
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among a population of veterans admitted to the surgical ICU was 97%.Data Source: An 8-month...
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Vitamin D Deficiency High in the Surgical ICU
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among a population of veterans admitted to the surgical ICU was 97%.Data Source: An 8-month...
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Trials Give Nod to Antibiotics for Children With Certain AOM
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- Doug Brunk
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Trials Give Nod to Antibiotics for Children With Certain AOM
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- Doug Brunk
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Pomegranate Juice Found Beneficial for Dialysis Patients
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: Dialysis patients who consumed pomegranate juice over the course of a year had a lower rate of infection-related hospitalization...
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Pomegranate Juice Found Beneficial for Dialysis Patients
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: Dialysis patients who consumed pomegranate juice over the course of a year had a lower rate of infection-related hospitalization...
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Intra-Articular Corticosteroids Slowed Bone Loss in RA
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: In the first 3 months, the rate of bone loss among patients with early RA who were treated with intra-articular corticosteroid...
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Bariatric Surgery Safer than Ever
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- Doug Brunk
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Bariatric Surgery Safer than Ever
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- Doug Brunk
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Higher Mortality When Anemia Develops in Stage 3 Kidney Disease
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: Patients who had stage 3 chronic kidney disease and developed anemia had earlier progression to stage 4 disease (18 months vs. 28...
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Higher Mortality When Anemia Develops in Stage 3 Kidney Disease
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- Doug Brunk
Major Finding: Patients who had stage 3 chronic kidney disease and developed anemia had earlier progression to stage 4 disease (18 months vs. 28...
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MRI Spotted Clinically Occult Breast Cancer
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- Doug Brunk